"It goes wherever it's going" Leonard Bernstein became the most famous conductor in America at the age of 25, on five hours' notice and even less sleep. On Nov. 13, 1943, Bernstein was celebrating the ...

Leonard Bernstein – or Lenny as he was affectionately ... His stratospheric rise to fame happened equally by chance. At the age of 25 he stepped in to conduct the New York Philharmonic with ...

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward ...

Like no other musician of his age, he was able to straddle the extremes ... One young man was due to go to America to study with Bernstein. ‘Be careful,’ his father warned. ‘Leonard Bernstein is gay.’ ...